At the Indian Army arsenal located in the town of Dum Dum 9, Captain Bertie Clay 10 developed a soft-point jacketed. The Indian Army, which had a fairly large amount of independence from the British Imperial Army, set to work to improve the effectiveness of the. The MI wanted to shoot two Boers who were found with dum-dum bullets, but Knox humanely stopped this. Mariam Subeih was fatally shot in the abdomen by an explosive dum-dum bullet.
Until the Chitral campaign in 1895, the British army had refined its armaments in accordance with contemporary.It’s been disheartening but not surprising watching how ignorantly the press is misconstruing what “Dum Dum” bullets actually are. The bullet he invented is today what we would call a soft tip, or soft point, which is now commonly used in hunting, but rarely used for police or civilian self-defense rounds.Dum-Dum and Other Varieties, The Times of India, 10 September 1915, 10: The original deformative bullets were manufactured at Dum-Dum, and in some way or other the town became associated in the public mind with soft-nosed bullets only, and the fact that principally hard-nosed bullets were turned out at Dum-Dum was overlooked.Dum Dum bullet in the years 1895-9. Their inventor was Neville Bertie-Clay. The name comes from the Dum Dum arsenal, near Calcutta in British India, where they were invented.
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